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{{quote|"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"<br />
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"|"[[
{{quote|'''Red Volcano''': "Worthless humans."<br />
'''M'gann''' and '''Superboy''': "<small>WE'RE NOT HUMAN</small>!"<br />
'''Red Volcano''': "Apologies. Perhaps the more inclusive term would be 'meatbags'."|''[[Young Justice (
When humans are referred to as "meatbags" or as otherwise meaty things by non-meaty beings. Another but equally valid version, largely in the case of aliens, is that the term is used not as an intentional slur, but simply to express shock or novelty, or because the alien does not have another term sufficient to describe us. These examples still count as this trope because they may still be interpreted as insults by humans (including the audience). In fact, this may be played for laughs.
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An additional variation which may or may not warrant its own subtrope involves vampires and similar creatures referring to humans derogatorily as a food source, with the implication that this is all they are good for.
May frequently overlap with [[Humans Are Ugly]], [[Humans Are Morons]] and [[Humans Are Flawed]]. A subtrope of [[Fantastic Slur]]. Compare [[Son of an Ape]], [[Call a Rabbit
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* The Bug "Edgar" from ''[[Men in Black (
== Literature ==
* Short story "[[
* The White Court Vampires of ''[[
** They also refer to wizards as "freaks," as Harry explains "If you saw a cow that could shoot lightning at you, you'd be freaked out too."
** Neatly encapsulated in this exchange from ''Changes'':
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'''Harry:''' "[[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|Moo.]]" (Boom). }}
* In ''[[Belisarius Series]]'', when Aide is exasperated with 6th century humans, he calls them "protoplasmic".
* Not aliens, but the fairies in ''[[
* In ''[[
* Some of the more snobbish Minds in [[The Culture]] tend to refer to humans as "meat." One Mind who was considered to have an unhealthy interest in reading human minds {{spoiler|for the purposes of driving evil people insane}} earned the nickname ''Meatfucker''.
* The Yeerks in ''[[
* The Race in [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''[[Worldwar
* In the ''[[Skinned]]'' series, the mechs (humans who had [[Brain Uploading|their brains uploaded]] into androids after their actual bodies are destroyed) call humans "orgs", as in "organic".
== Live-Action TV ==
* In an episode of ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[
** [[Eldritch Abomination|Glory]] has a tendency to actually refer to humans as 'meatbags'.
* A cyborg traitor in [[Space: Above and Beyond]] tells the interrogator that the "chigs" have a derogatory nickname for humans -- which translates as "red stink things."
* In ''[[Superhuman Samurai Syber
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', demons tend to refer to the human bodies they possess as "meat suits". ''Angels'' with contempt for humans refer to us all as "mud monkeys".
== Tabletop Games ==
* More callous vampires from the ''[[
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** Clarification: Interestingly, it didn't start out as a slur for the [[Fantastic Racism|entire race]]. HK-47, during a heated argument, called {{spoiler|Darth Malak}} a meatbag, and {{spoiler|Darth Revan}} found it so hilarious that he programmed the Droid to refer as such to all humans.
** In the sequel, HK-47 dislikes the gray HK-50 droids that repeatedly try to kill you partly because they refer to meatbags as organics.
* In a [[Shout
* In ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius
* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'''s Dr. Nefarious likes to refer to non-robots, especially Ratchet, as "squishies".
* One of the insults available to Bots in ''[[Tribes 2]]'' is to call the other players ''"Inefficient Meat Bags."''
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Beyond the Canopy]]'', a [[Dem Bones|skeleton soldier]] refers to several living opponents, regardless of species, as "skinbags".
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick
** He also calls Roy a meatbag in their first encounter.
** He did this in [[Start of Darkness]] after realizing his transformation into a lich {{spoiler|robbed him of his sense of taste, so he can't enjoy coffee anymore.}} He kills everyone else in the diner in a fit of [[Tranquil Fury]] and nearly kills Right-eye and Redcloak, calling them fluid-filled sacks of organs.
* Tagon's Toughs in ''[[
** Even "good" AIs affectionately refer to organic beings as 'meat-glaciers'.
* ''[[
* In ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* Bender of ''[[
* ''[[Transformers]]'' gave us such pejorative names as "Fleshlings", "Puny Earth Creatures", "Earth Germs", "Organics", "Squishies" and "Stubbies". A lot of Transformers (particularly Decepticons) have a rather dim view of humanity.
* In one episode of ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'', Jimmy and Co. meet a four-armed alien called the Junk Man. After his scanner mentions how the majority of their mass is water, he calls the humans "water sacks".
* The ''[[Young Justice (
** In season 2, the Light's mysterious new partner has a penchant for calling people "meat".
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